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The Welcome

By Hubert Creekmore; Introduction by Phillip Gordon
University Press of Mississippi

A new edition of the important, long out-of-print novel

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Blues and Trouble

Twelve Stories

University Press of Mississippi

Now back in print, the debut story collection from a celebrated American writer

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Friendship and Devotion, or Three Months in Louisiana

By Camille Lebrun; Translated with commentary by E. Joe Johnson and Robin Anita White
University Press of Mississippi

Never before in English, a travel-adventure novel of two young women navigating antebellum Louisiana

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Chita

A Memory of Last Island

By Lafcadio Hearn; Edited by Delia LaBarre; Introduction by Jefferson Humphries
University Press of Mississippi

A lush, evocative novel about a mysterious girl who survives a devastating hurricane in old Louisiana

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Forty Acres and a Goat

University Press of Mississippi

A call with no steeple from the preacher with no pulpit

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Brother to a Dragonfly

University Press of Mississippi

The National Book Award-nominated memoir of a preacher, author, and civil rights activist

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High Cotton

Four Seasons in the Mississippi Delta

University Press of Mississippi

A paean to the vanishing family cotton farm

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Pelican Road

A Novel

University Press of Mississippi

The riveting story of a lost way of life along a great southern railroad

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On The Gulf

University Press of Mississippi

A collection of short stories, all set on the Gulf Coast, by a master of the form

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Jujitsu for Christ

By Jack Butler; Afterword by Brannon Costello
University Press of Mississippi

A rowdy novel of a Jackson preacher and martial arts devotee who finds himself in the heat of Mississippi’s nadir

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Fire in the Morning

University Press of Mississippi

A great writer’s first novel of a southern family’s vendetta

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A Lifetime Burning

University Press of Mississippi

A novel of passion denied and a woman’s enduring search for love and truth

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The Rock Cried Out

University Press of Mississippi

A restless, young generation collides with a South in transition

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The Snare

University Press of Mississippi

The reprinting of a major southern writer’s New Orleans novel that explores a young woman’s temptation to live on the periphery of evil

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The Night Travellers

University Press of Mississippi

A Vietnam-era novel of love, protest, and fervent beliefs

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This Crooked Way

University Press of Mississippi

A classic novel of one man’s will and the undercurrent of violence in the Mississippi Delta

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New Orleans Sketches

University Press of Mississippi

Faulkner’s early fictional forays that foreshadow a Nobel Laureate in the making

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The Big Ballad Jamboree

University Press of Mississippi

A southern literary master’s captivating novel about the rise of a Nashville-bound singer as “hillbilly” evolves into “country”

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Spheres of Liberty

Changing Perceptions of Liberty in American Culture

University Press of Mississippi

A historical overview of the concept of liberty in American culture and thought

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Falling Through Space

The Journals of Ellen Gilchrist

University Press of Mississippi

Enhanced with fifteen new essays, the benchmark of an acclaimed writer’s spunk and sense of place

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Inside Peyton Place

The Life of Grace Metalious

University Press of Mississippi

The juicy biography of the scandalous novelist who lifted the lid off a New England town

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The Pursuit of a Dream

University Press of Mississippi

The story of a utopia created by Mississippi freedmen on a white man’s former plantation

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Mule Trader

Ray Lum's Tales of Horses, Mules, and Men

University Press of Mississippi

A mule trader’s tales from a culture enriched by his fascinating presence

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Beetlecreek

By William Demby; Afterword by James C. Hall
University Press of Mississippi

A novel in which there is candid treatment of desperate isolation in a small town’s black quarter

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Me

A Book of Remembrance

University Press of Mississippi

A Chinese-Eurasian’s autobiographical novel tracing a woman’s dual quest for a writing career and romance

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The Light in the Piazza and Other Italian Tales

University Press of Mississippi

Seven fascinating tales in which southerners surrender to the mesmerizing spell of Italy

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For Us, the Living

University Press of Mississippi

A widow’s love story of her life with Medgar Evers, the NAACP civil rights leader murdered by a midnight assassin

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Dark Princess

By W. E. B. Du Bois; Introduction by Claudia Tate
University Press of Mississippi

The remarkably complex romance in which Du Bois confronted the twentieth century world that had closed itself to people of color

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Apostles of Light

By Ellen Douglas; Introduction by Elizabeth Spencer
University Press of Mississippi

A spellbinding novel named as a finalist for the National Book Award in 1973

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